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Rod &
Kubby. Photo by Bob Gentry, ©2002 by Stanyan Entertainment Group.
A Thought for Today
Wear your Sunday face all day today.
About today’s download
The Snows of Amsterdam has had several incarnations; as a poem in Come to
Me in Silence, a prose poem in New Carols for Christmas and as a musical
miniature in McKuen Conducts McKuen. Arthur Greenslade arranged it for one
of our marathon sessions at Olympic Studios in London. The orchestra is
The Royal Philharmonic.
This track was chosen by Eric Yeager.
The Snows of Amsterdam
Words & Music by Rod McKuen
You can almost hear
the snow fall down in Amsterdam.
It comes with such a force
that people in the streets
bend forward like trees
to shield themselves
till their safe in their own doorways.
The ground is now all winter white
and who’s to say
where God’s clouds end
and the snows of Amsterdam begin.
-from the album New Carols for Christmas, 1971, the book Come to Me in
Silence, 1973 & the album McKuen Conducts McKuen, 1974
Tomorrow’s download is one of my most successful songs. It topped the
charts in Europe, South America and The Far East but failed to gain much
notoriety in North America.
Sleep warm.
RM 12/28/2002 3:56AM PST
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THE SNOWS OF
AMSTERDAM
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